I would argue that you have the willingness to adapt AAA games backwards. Mac represents a decently high end platform with mostly fixed specs and very fast memory. It's way more like a console. And 8GB of ram is actually really comfortable to use on a Mac, Windows is a ram hog. Note that lots of Windows machines still sell with 8GB of ram too and no one that knows anything is buying those.

Knowing that you have a narrow scope of hardware let's the dev target that hardware with optimizations.

What's even more important is that the base M3 iMac has a GPU capable of playing these titles while an integrated graphics intel or AMD chip really doesn't. That means that every single Mac sold can play the game. Only a small fraction of PCs can, those with upgraded graphics cards which implies a whole bunch of things like upgraded power supplies and so on. Those mass production Dell Inspirons at Best Buy are difficult to get a modern graphics card into.

Apple doesn't offer competition to a >=Nvidia 4060, but they are withing about 30% of that on *every* model and within 10% of it on the higher end units.

Trying not to sound like an Apple fanboi here, but I cannot live with a gaming laptop for work, they're bad in every way except the GPU. I carry an M2 MBP 16" which is a fantastic work computer, being able to play AAA titles on that machine would mean me purchasing AAA titles that I wont for lack of a platform to play it on or willingness to invest in a separate gaming rig. Frankly it's a bigger market to have daily driver computers that can do a good job of playing a game at the end of the work day and Apple just has to convince developers of that market. Apple is in a possition to be the largest platform for games if they can get devs onboard.

not sure how old you are but there were mac games that used the mouse years ahead of PC. Mac really did introduce gaming with the mouse, they introduced the mouse to the home computer (via inspiration from Xerox). You can't rewrite the past.

The article does a reasonable job of pointing out that Mac couldn't keep up with PC and failed to support GPUs well enough for gamers. Mac was lost to gaming sometime around the first voodoo cards hitting the market and Mac gaming has been mostly in decline ever sense.

we used to not give so much weight to ACs. Now you can cower behind the AC and say what you want and people vote it up.

I don't really have any knowledge except what was published, so I'm interested to see how this plays out.

I have a strange relationship with Apple. I love the products, I've never had a better laptop than my M2 MBP16. However, the company itself is sort of a big evil empire. Not google or facebook evil, but not so different that you might confuse them with the good guys lol.

I'm not so sure. I read up on the history, the ban is based on debateable info. Such as Apple hiring talent from a company that worked with Masimo, not Masimo itself. No apparent trade secrets were transferred, and even the idea itself had prior art just not put into a smart watch which might not actually hold up on appeal for the patent because it might be considered obvious to take a wrist strapped sensor and put it in an already on your wrist watch. From what I can tell, the only thing Masimo might have innovated here is just that, putting already existing sensor that had been around since the 70's in mass production and strapped to wrists in clinical environments and put it in a watch. IDK that I buy that.

This case definitely needs to go through an appeals process. Apple isn't obviously in the wrong here and there are a pile of counter claims Apple might make against Masimo for things that Apple first put into smart watches that are magically in the Masimo watch.

I'm not exactly sure Masimo's tactic here, they don't seem like they'd want to force Apple to buy them. Maybe they're just wanting to force a license on the tech at a favorable rate :/

I'm not saying Apple is a 'nice' company. I really don't see them voluntarily agrees to an extortion license. I would expect them to battle it out in court and simultaneously make a play for a big stock buy ie hostile takover if not outright purchase of Masimo.

This is absolutely not what happened. Cummins did effectively the same thing that volkswagon did.

I think they will also, but for multiple reasons. Amazon Prime in the marketplace has degraded substantially. The combination of not getting better service from Amazon for products and Prime Video having ads I suspect will have an affect.

The real problem here is that the entire streaming market place is a loss. They've been taking the losses and burning money to built the services and now it's basically more than the old cable bill to get the content. No one wants 25 different $7-$25 services to watch a handful of shows.

Streaming has broken television.

And I'm out. I'll remove prime streaming before I see an ad. Seems a little bait and switch, the point of BUYING the streaming in the first place was to get rid of the ads.

"stories are underrated" (exurpt from a memo at DC)

I'm not even onboard with the pretty faces thing. Momoa is a name but Amber Heard? Well she is really pretty, but I didn't go see this movie in the theater because she's in it. And the rest of the cast? Either not enough screen time to really count them, or it's credit soup of basically cameos.

I'm sorry, but there's so much episodic content out there where they're telling us real stories I just don't know how interested we all are in a poorly told story with DC's almost offputting special effects. 'Motion Comic Book' is maybe the best way to describe it which doesn't work for me and has been criticised heavily by others.

Marvel at least gets that right. They had a nice story arch for a while too but they've also lost the plot. I don't know if I can watch some of these movies again.

And my final criticism is a comparison to star wars. I can binge the movies and suffer through Episode I and some weak endings and still enjoy the overall experience. I cannot with DC, and with Marvel that's getting real tough. Having these crappy movies in the mix ruins bingability.

It's ONLY Android users that are complaining. That's strictly true because there are effectively no other phone platforms in mass use now.

I'd say this is essentially false. It's not Apple's 'fault' that they invented a thing to enhance their products and continue to support it and not allow 3rd parties aka unknown parties access. I would also argue that it would NOT improve the user experience of iPhone users in having the protocol opened up to 3rd parties. I can tell you how I get spam txts and how I don't get spam imessages as an example. There's a security having access to imessage be authenticated and verified.

Because Apple users really like the system as it is. I don't consider it impaired at all, I consider it the premium. I'm not locked in to imessage, I can use whatever I want, but what I do get is a cohesive ecosystem that allows me to use imessage on apple devices and that of course makes the entire ecosystem look more attractive. I do not want 3rd parties in my imessage. Again, this is why Android people are complaining about the elitism.

iPhone users are not complaining about this. If you're claiming they are, you are either outright lying, you've dramatically misinterpreted, or you have an especially unique group telling you this. iPhone users are making fun on Android, not complaining about Android. Not the same thing. 'Complaining' that your friend has a cheap phone and screws up the group chats is elitism.

Apple supports the completely cross platform SMS and MMS system and has from day 1. You send messages, you send pictures, it's there. They are adding RCS which will fix the crappy picture resultion and flare on the messages. They don't need to open iMessage, they never did, they were right not to, and iPhone users are very happy in the vast majority.

well, I did post this on my mac, so if you posted on a windows machine I could see how that shrug might not have made it through.... `\_("/)_/`

people look down on others that drive Kias, and what brands of clothes they wear, and and and.

Let me suggest that if someone doesn't want to date you because they don't like your phone, you've dodged a bullet. And if you want to get laid by the type of person that only bangs iphone users, go buy an iphone se for your burner. That's the price of playing the game.

Telegram, whatsapp, Signal, and virtually all the other messaging apps handle full resolution images like imessage. Note that RCS isn't universally available either. It doesn't work on all Android devices, it doesn't work on all carriers. It's incomplete. Even if forcing Apple into RCS you'd still have people that send bad images because they bought a cheap phone, or they are on a forked android phone or on a budget MVNO or all these other reasons.

It's not Apple's fault that the cell industry didn't improve of SMS and MMS in a timely manner. They had to make iMessage to get these features a decade before other systems caught up.

I'm sure people want that, but there seems to be the idea that Apple should have to comply which I see as a rediculous effort. Why should Apple have to make a piece of software for Windows, or allow for interoperability with 3rd parties and open it's encryption up for?

Sure it would be nice to have access to iMessage on Windows, but I don't have any desire to see some judge or government force that to happen.

Right, just use one of the MANY messaging apps. RCS isn't typically encrypted either and when it is, it's via google's kit which means it's encrypted but not private. iMessage is more or less the 'most' 'private' 'txt message' app, quotes intended there, consider those airquotes if you like.... If you care about privacy, something being a just little bit more private doesn't really cut it.

Regardless of platform, if you want the best privacy you can get you need to separate your messages from your cell service and use something like signal. And so, the argument of imessage, sms, mms, rcs, etc is just a bad one.

Maybe some of that, but I think more of the reverse. iPhone/iMessage people aren't throwing tantrums that Android people wont share. It's Android people (and very small number of really loud people) throwing tantrums and trying to get laws changed so that Apple (the 'cool kids') will let them in to the cool colored bubble club.

And they ancient lawmakers that can only hear the loudest trantrum throwers. Maybe if we got some younger leadership that could hear words spoken at casual volumes we might not have to endure these non-sense battles for identity.

I don't think the vast majority in the US or anywhere does. It's just the extremely loud minority that are looking for a way to be the victums.